Lab Members

Teamwork Leads to Impactful Research
Principal Investigator

Lucy Kornblith, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of General Surgery
Trauma and Surgical Critical Care
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
The Director of Gender Equity
Co-chair, Muriel Steele Society
Director of Research, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Specialists

Alexander T. Fields, PhD
Associate Specialist
Program manager

Brenda Nunez-Garcia
Program Manager
Laboratory Manager
Nasima Mayer
Lab Manager
Staff Research Associate

Karl Zoghbi
Staff Research Associate
Clinical Research Coordinators

Isabel Arango, BA, MBBS
Clinical Research Coordinator

Kim Bardillon
Clinical Research Coordinator

Michelle Conte
Undergraduate Student Research Fellow

Miles Deane-Grundman
Undergraduate Student Research Fellow

Suzanna Chak, BA
Clinical Research Coordinator

Celine (Yu) Chou, BS
Clinical Research Coordinator
Bioinformatician
Yale Santos
Bioinformatician
Students/ Volunteers
Jake Corvera
Undergraduate Student Research Fellow

Vasuda Dokiparthi
Undergraduate Student Research Fellow

Amelia Marvit
Undergraduate Student Research Fellow
Alumni

Mary Kathryn Abel, AB
M.D./MAS Candidate Class of 2022

Saigeetha Bhaskar
Graduate Student Research Fellow

Seif Elmankabadi, BS
Clinical Research Coordinator

Aubrey Fife
Undergraduate Student Research Fellow

Zane Hellmann
Medical Student at UCSF (Class of 2021)
Kimberly Herrera Rodriguez
Previous Staff Research Associate
Mihir Joshi, MD
Anesthesia Resident at Stanford University
Previous Medical Student at UCSF (Class of 2023)
Dhruv Kothari, MD
Otolaryngology Resident at Cedars- Sinai Medical Center
Previous Clinical Research Coordinator

Deanna Lee, BS
Clinical Research Coordinator
Chelsea Lin
Volunteer Research Fellow

Zachary Matthay, MD
Graduate
General Surgery Surgery Residency Program, 2023
Somya Mishra, MD
Anesthesiology Resident at University of Utah
Previous Clinical Research Coordinator
Viet Nguyen
Current Medical Student
Previous Clinical Research Coordinator

John J. Park
Clinical Research Coordinator

Maya Patel
Undergraduate Student Research Fellow

Brittany Robinson
General Surgery Resident, UCLA Health
Previous Medical Student at UCSF (Class of 2019)

Anamaria Robles, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Division of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care
University of California, Davis
Previous UCSF Research Fellow

Erin E. Ross
Clinical Research Coordinator
India Shelley
Medical Student at Thomas Jefferson University (Class of 2025)
Previous Clinical Research Coordinator
Maya Weidman
Previous Undergraduate Student Research Fellow